School Shooters

On January 15, 2013, the parking lot of Hazard Community and Technical College in Hazard, Kentucky, became the setting for a deadly domestic shooting. Just after 6:00 p.m., 21-year-old Dalton…

On October 1, 2015, 26-year-old Christopher Harper-Mercer entered Snyder Hall at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon, carrying six firearms and extra ammunition. He walked into his writing class around…

On October 2, 2006, a one-room Amish schoolhouse in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania became the site of a targeted and deeply disturbing shooting. The gunman, 32-year-old Charles Carl Roberts IV, was…

On May 18, 2018, 17-year-old Dimitrios Pagourtzis entered Santa Fe High School in Santa Fe, Texas, armed with a shotgun and a .38-caliber revolver. Both weapons belonged to his father….

On April 16, 2007, Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia became the site of the deadliest school shooting in U.S. history. The gunman, 23-year-old Seung-Hui Cho, was a senior at the…

On the night of November 13, 2022, the University of Virginia was rocked by a targeted shooting that left three students dead and two others wounded. The incident occurred just…

On December 7, 2017, Aztec High School in the rural town of Aztec, New Mexico, became the site of a calculated school shooting carried out by a former student. At…

On September 4, 2024, Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia became the scene of a deadly school shooting. At around 10:20 a.m., 14-year-old freshman Colt Gray entered the school’s J…

On the morning of February 27, 2012, 17-year-old Thomas “T.J.” Lane walked into the cafeteria at Chardon High School in Chardon, Ohio, just after 7:30 a.m. Students were gathered before…

On August 1, 1966, Charles Whitman carried out one of the earliest and most infamous mass shootings in American history. Shortly before noon, Whitman, a 25-year-old former Marine and student…